VideoStudio Ultimate X8

VideoStudio Pro X8

With streamlined features, more creative options than ever and 10 bonus FX apps, VideoStudio Ultimate X8 frees you to explore exciting new possibilities. Premium plugins and tools for special effects, titles, transitions and video correction help you make your most ambitious projects a reality.

Includes everything in the Pro version, PLUS a premium 64-bit special effects pack, including 10 apps:

New! Clearer Audio

Audio Ducking automatically lowers background sound when it detects audio or narration, so you can balance dialog, narration and ambient sound.

XAVC S support

New! XAVC S support

Work with XAVC S, a new standard for video cameras based on MP4-AVC/H.264, and get support for resolutions up to 4K 3840 x 2160.

More creative options

New! More creative options

Create beautiful effects by adjust how overlays blend with the background. Use a video mask to create interesting special effects or title sequences.

Freeze frame

New! Freeze frame

Add extra impact by temporarily stopping the action to focus on a single frame. Easily set the duration of the freeze frame to get the results you want.

Only in Ultimate

Get the time-saving tools and new creative features in VideoStudio Pro X8, plus the Ultimate Edition Special FX Pack.

Enhanced!

Add hundreds of dollars worth of professional-quality special effects applications from proven industry leaders. Imagine the high-quality effects you can add to your projects for only a few dollars more than the price of VideoStudio Pro.

Special Effects app: proDAD Adorage Starter Pack

Get creative with over 150 effects and transitions that help you create high-quality trailers, transitions, credits and more.

NewBlue FX Essentials IV

NewBlue FX Essentials IV

Solve everyday production problems and boost creativity with dozens of image-enhancing presets. Turn day into night, create reflections, touch up skin and more.

Special effects app: proDAD Mercalli SE

Special effects app: proDAD Mercalli SE

Get video stabilization capabilities that ensure rock-steady video, no matter how fast the action. Rolling-shutter compensation removes wobble and skew caused when panning.

Special effects app: NewBlue FX Motion Effects

This popular plugin helps you achieve professional results with more than 100 presets in 10 incredibly efficient tools.

Special effects app: proDAD VitaScene LE

Bring style and truly stunning transitions and effects to your productions with proDAD VitaScene, including more than 100 broadcast-quality fully customizable professional effects, filters, and image enhancements.

Special effects app: Boris Graffiti 6

This amazing array of broadcast-quality titles and graphics capabilities lets you easily make sophisticated title animations, such as type on text, text on a path, jitter, and randomization.

Special effects app: NewBlue FX ColorFast

Get the color you want no matter what the condition of your original video. This integrated plug-in streamlines color correction and color grading in one simple workflow.

Special effects app: proDAD RotoPen

Animated pen effects let you draw on maps, illustrate with light or video, or apply animated pen effects to any path.

Special effects app: NewBlue Background Generator

Easily magnify and alter an image from your video into a beautiful backdrop, complete with a perpetual panning motion. Adjust magnify, sharpness, color and more to suit your needs.

Clearer Audio

New! Clearer Audio

Balance dialog, narration with background sound for pro-quality audio. With Audio Ducking, VideoStudio Pro X8 detects audio or narration and automatically lowers the volume of background sound. Adjust the Ducking Level and Sensitivity if you wish for even more control.

XAVC S

New! XAVC S

Work with XAVC S, a new standard for video cameras based on MP4-AVC/H.264, and get support for resolutions up to 4K 3840 x 2160.

More creative options

New! More creative options

Enjoy a variety of effects options by adjusting how overlay objects blend with the background. With new Add, Multiple and Grey Key options, you can create unique semi-transparent and color blend results. Use a video mask to hide or reveal different parts of your video for interesting special effects or title sequences.

Freeze frame

New! Freeze frame

Whether it’s a beautiful smile, your child scoring a goal or stunning scenery, sometimes you want to add extra impact by temporarily stopping the action to focus on a single frame. The new Freeze Frame feature makes it easy to select the frame and set the duration to get the effect you want.

Convert titles to Alpha channel files

New! Convert titles to Alpha channel files

Create stylish, professional-looking titles by converting them to alpha channel images or animations.

New! Smart features make projects easier

Easily keep track of the clips you’ve used in your video. Thumbnails in the Library show a check mark when the clip has been used to help you avoid reusing the same footage. Re-use your existing video projects thanks to Multiple Projects Editing. Easily save and re-use your customized Filters or Transitions in future projects.

ScoreFitter

New! ScoreFitter

No movie is complete without a soundtrack. Add music with the included Scorefitter library of royalty-free sounds and songs—they even automatically adjust to fit the length of your movies.

Triple Scoop Music

New! Triple Scoop Music

Capture the mood of your movie with the perfect soundtrack. Get 17 royalty-free music tracks from Triple Scoop Music.

Free training from StudioBacklot.tv

New! Free training from StudioBacklot.tv

Get a 6-week, all-access pass to StudioBacklot.tv—free! From introductory videos to segments on FastFlick, Screen Capture and advanced techniques, you’ll learn how to make the most of everything VideoStudio has to offer. Plus, explore other training and the royalty-free stock library.

Screen Capture

Enhanced! Screen Capture

Recording directly from your screen is a great way to add custom content to presentations, demos or training videos. With enhanced Screen Capture, you can easily capture both system audio and microphone sound. Snap View Capture works in Windows 8 to let you record Windows apps in action.

Enhanced! 4K hardware acceleration

4K hardware acceleration is optimized for upcoming Intel 5th Generation processors, delivering over
over 400% faster performance than VideoStudio Pro X7. Overall playback performance in full HD is also enhanced and more tracks can be played in real time.

Enhanced! More formats supported

Enjoy more compatibility with import support for MKV files, which act as multimedia containers that can hold video, audio and subtitles in a file. New support for MOV (H.264 format) has been added to VideoStudio’s variety of export options, which include AVI, MPEG-2, MPEG-4, QuickTime, WebM, Windows Media Format, HTML5 and more.

Motion tracking settings

Enhanced! Motion tracking settings

More mosaic types and better size control let you perfectly blur a face or car plate in your clip. Easy motion tracking also lets you target and track moving objects on screen and connect them to elements such as text and graphics.

Learning resources

Learning resources

Access a wide range of learning resources from within the Help menu. Search the latest Help, download the User Guide (PDF), or watch one of the many video tutorials in the Discovery Center.

Storyboard/timeline editing

Toggle between simple storyboard editing and more advanced multi-track timeline editing according to your preferences or project needs.

Great audio for your video productions

Great audio for your video productions

Import music, voiceover, sound effects or the audio of your choosing and easily sync up to your timeline. Record your own voice, apply royalty free auto-music and easily control the relative volume of your clips.

Easy fades and transitions

Get the right look for your production with drag-and-drop transitions that deliver easy fades, dissolves, wipes and many other effects.

Powerful titles and overlays

Add on-screen text effects, such as credits, captions, or subtitles, and customizable attributes such as color, font and animation. Apply motion to your text using title animation tools or apply filters to your text using preset Title Effects.

Fast and easy ways to customize your production

Use drag and drop effects, or Cut and Paste Attributes from one clip to another. Swap overlay tracks without losing any information.

Variable speed

Variable speed

Evoke drama by using slow motion, or speed things up for a unique time-lapse effects. With enhanced Variable Speed controls, it's easy to alter the speed in any part of your video without having to work with multiple video clips.

Slideshows that impress

Experiment and add a unique look to your videos and photo slideshows with your favorite transition effects. Select only the transition effects you want and add them to the Random Effects category.

QuickTime alpha channels

Import animated sequences with transparent backgrounds using new built-in support for QuickTime movies containing alpha channels. Now you can make animations and video effects in popular 2D and 3D animation packages and then use them directly in VideoStudio Pro X8.

Create videos for mobile devices

Create videos for mobile devices

Share movies anywhere with full support for iPad, iPhone, iPod touch and Sony PSP, as well as Windows and Android smartphones. View your video masterpiece no matter where you are.

FastFlick™ for quick and easy slideshows and videos

Make movies and slideshows in just 3 steps. Select a template, add your media and share your movie to Facebook, YouTube, Flickr, Vimeo. Save your project to a variety of video formats.